I voted today! Did you??? :idea: It would be great if Shawn won this award! Please vote for him today! And every day for the next week! Here's a few past winners that you may recognize - vaulters and decathletes ... 13th 1942 Cornelius Warmerdam (CA) Athletics 19th 1948 Robert B. Mathias (CA) Athle...

The following documents to a large extent the action of the arms during the vault from 1896 to Warmerdam. All comes from sourced pole vault books and or articles of the time. o The working of the arms begins just before the twist is made, and consists of pulling with the right arm and pushing with t...

European pits up through the late 1960's (perhaps beyond) lagged behind the pits in the United States in terms of material. When Americans went from sand to sawdust in the early 1900's Europe stayed with sand. Sawdust was even used at the 1960 Olympic Trials at Stanford along with a runway of grass ...

Hi, I collect the same items as well, except on the west coast. What is a Catapole Browning Golden Eagle pole (brown)? That pole I am not aware of. Catapole and Browning were two different companies. If you ever visit Santa Barbara let me know and I'll give you the tour. I have poles from 1890 throu...

i understand what you were saying, i was wondering how the junior is able to get that high without bending the pole because when i increase my grip the poles do bend whether i like it or not. my last post was questioning how the other vaulter is able to do it, not asking how id be able to do it. Th...

I concur, but a lot of the officials don't know anything about vaulting. This weekend, no poles were checked at a District meet because no one knew who was responsible to do it, so they didn't. I also think the "video viewing rule" is seriously being misinterpreted as many coach's are vid...

Altius quote: "You will never go wrong if you THINK that you are jumping on a stiff pole - and you should be actually doing that in your training. And stiff polers always took off OUT -they couldnt cheat their way off the ground as you can with a flexible pole. They took off tall and out and th...

You are correct that early vaulters did not try to bend the pole. Their focus was to swing very quickly and forcefully at a higher angle then todays vaulters. Any bend their got from their wood, steel or glass poles was the result of their speed, grip height and pole rating. Yes, Gill rated poles fr...

A significant number (if not most) of the elite wood/steel/early glass vaulters from 1900 to early 1960's held both their arms very bent during the plant and takeoff. Although the concept "free take-off" was thought of by both Jim Graham and John Uelses, I cannot find any film of pictures ...

His last edition was 1980. Of historical note, Ganslen was one of just a few important authors who wrote about the pole vault from the late 1890s to the early 1950's. All the basic technical concepts of mid mark, straight top arm plant, being slightly out at plant, running off ground, giant swing an...